We stopped by the Noctua and Coolink booth as well and they had a few little surprises in store for us. The austrian firm is showing off their 140 and 120 mm PWM fans for the first time. They mentioned quite some time ago, that such a unit is in planning and behold the sight of the new unit. It comes with the same mounting holes as a 120 mm unit, due to the round frame. The cooler is optimized for air pressure and the use for CPU coolers. Using this unit, Noctua will be offering the C12P as well as their newest addition - the NH-D14 with the 140 mm fan. Noctua will also be offering an upgrade kit for those who wish to replace their current 120 mm fans with the newest unit.

Coolink will be dropping the blue and clear colors in favor for a bright, lime green and black variant. They are starting the new line with brand new SWIF2 fans and a new CPU cooler. This sandwich cooler will feature the new 120 mm SWIF2 fan along with direct touch heatpipes, which have been worked into the base cleanly.

I was wondering when noctua would ever come out with a 140cm fan. There aren't that many choices out there to begin with.
And I have to agree wholeheartedly with you tigger on those direct touch heatpipes.

Ooo errr. I'll admit upfront that I'm a wee bit of a Noctua fanboi - I've always used their CPU coolers and love their quiet fans (urgh ... horrible colours though); so I'm very keen to see how that dual-heatsink CPU cooler performs.

Noctua still have their ugly color scheme huh. Good marketing tho, you can tell immediatley "those are Noctua fans"
I like that Coolink CPU cooler, especially the base.

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I would think that they would sell more if they atleast offered black and white themes which is just good business. I am not into windowed cases n' bling anymore so I dont mind the colors. I bought all Noctua fans for case and cpu

Yes, Noctua are probably the best PC fan producers right now. These guys actually know what they're talking about as they have dedicated testing facilities (I read somewhere that they even test their fans in a wind tunnel!). Plus, if you take a really good look at the latest geared turbofan designs, they have the same type of notches at the end of the blades, which are designed to be as quiet as possible (nobody likes airplanes that sound like they're about to crash).

I might want that Coolink sandwich cooler. It looks like it makes use of best of both worlds. The no holes middle copper will help the heat transfer to the outer pipes too, with non i7 sized CPUs. And possibility to mount three fans is also nice =)

Someone jsut needs to come up with PWM splitter cables! AKASA has sort of one, but it uses molex to provide power. MB PWM plug has plenty of power for 2 and even 3 fans (at lest the ones I'd use).

I might want that Coolink sandwich cooler. It looks like it makes use of best of both worlds. The no holes middle copper will help the heat transfer to the outer pipes too, with non i7 sized CPUs. And possibility to mount three fans is also nice =)

Someone jsut needs to come up with PWM splitter cables! AKASA has sort of one, but it uses molex to provide power. MB PWM plug has plenty of power for 2 and even 3 fans (at lest the ones I'd use).